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Scientific name:

Ribes odoratum

Vernacular name:

Currant, Buffalo


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Buffalo Currant

Scientific name: Ribes odoratum H.L. Wendl.

Diagnostic features
Shrub to 2.5m.
Leaves 2-5cm, glabrous, not scented.
Flowers in pendent racemes, 6-10mm across, bright yellow, fragrant, glabrous.
Berry 6-10mm across, dark red to purplish-black, without bloom.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; commonly grown and sometimes found relict or self-sown in hedgerows, roadsides and scrub.

Distribution
Scattered in South England, Man, Lanarks; Central USA.

This species is keyed out on Page 2782 in the Text Key.

Ribes odoratum (Currant, Buffalo)
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